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C'est un **grave** problème. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#2713552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2713552) [\#1540792](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1540792)) - “Oh! oh!” he murmured at length, “this is **serious** indeed.” «Oh! oh! murmura-t-il enfin, ceci est **grave**, en effet. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7737) - That is a **serious** error. C'est une **grave** erreur. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 102466) - No of **serious** infringements detected Nombre d'infractions **graves** détectées ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4139213) - 43. UNHCR was facing **serious** budget deficits. 43. Le HCR connaît de **graves** déficits budgétaires. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8796091) ## sérieux Used about 18 931 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 269 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 2 835 · UN documents ≈ 15 811). Forms: sérieuse, sérieux. - Are you **serious**, bro? Tu es **sérieux**, mec ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12476308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12476308) [\#12476313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12476313)) - To-day, people are **serious**. Aujourd'hui on est **sérieux**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29305) - You may laugh, Mr President, but I am **serious**. Vous pouvez rire, Monsieur le Président, mais je suis **sérieux**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2036654) - No **serious** body adopts the same legislation twice. Or, aucun organe **sérieux** n ' adopte la même législation à deux reprises. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8736698) - I wasn't **serious**. Je n'étais pas **sérieuse**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#2247555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247555) [\#2561099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2561099)) ## très Used about 2 815 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 180 · UN documents ≈ 2 635). - Indeed, it caused **serious** difficulties for the Commission to arrive at accurate and substantiated findings with respect to this subsidy scheme. En effet, il a été **très** difficile pour la Commission de parvenir à des conclusions précises et dûment étayées en ce qui concerne ce régime de subventions. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5002533) - The same speaker expressed **serious** concern about the very limited basic data on which the programme was built. Le même intervenant s ' est dit extrêmement préoccupé par le fait que le programme avait été conçu à partir de données de base **très** limitées. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9198716) ## problème Used about 354 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 354). - I must say, therefore, that we recognise the **serious** nature of this issue. Dès lors, je dois dire que nous reconnaissons la nature sérieuse de ce **problème**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 513411) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I didn't realize you were **serious**. Je n'ai pas pris conscience que vous étiez sérieuses. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2362082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2362082) [\#2370918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2370918)) - You weren't **serious**, were you? Vous n'étiez pas sérieuses, si ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2288254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2288254) [\#2288795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2288795)) - Are you **serious** about getting married? Envisagez-vous sérieusement de vous marier ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3476416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3476416) [\#3487303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3487303)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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